For computers running Windows 8 you will have to modify a few folders in order to resolve a pop up claiming:
“cannot save settings to file c:\program file (86)\voicent\gateway\data\adclient-settings.dat”

To correct this problem, follow the below steps:
*Note you will need Administrative privileges!

1. Open “My Computer”
2. Navigate to “C:\Program Files (x86)\”
3. Right click the “Voicent” folder and select “Properties”
4. Go to “Security”
5. Click “Users” and select “Edit”
6. Click “Users” and check “Full Control”
7. Click “Apply” and “OK”
8. Restart your computer and you should stop receiving this message

Voicent Communications offers the ability to go directly to a database and grab phone numbers, cell phone numbers, emails, first names, and last names. Allowing you to create a campaign almost instantly.

To set up this feature, open the software you purchased from us and navigate to the “Broadcast” -> “Select Database” option.

On the resulting form, input.

Connection String: jdbc:mysql://localhost/database_name

*Where database_name would be the name of your database

Driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Driver JAR file: C:\mysql-connector.jar

*Make sure this mysql-connector is correct for the MySQL version you are using

User: username
Password: password
SQL Statement
select first_name, last_name, phone, id from contacts where already_called=0
Name of Phone Column: phone_number

*Where phone_number is the name of the phone column

ID Column: ID
First Name Column: first_name
Last Name Column: last_name
Name Column: full_name

*Make sure that the columns you enter are valid MySQL columns and that the phone column is not empty as that is the only required field.